Segmented Fabrics - Brocade Communications Systems 8 Troubleshooting And Diagnostics Manual

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Segmented fabrics

If you enter the cfgShow command to display information about all zones, the TI zones appear in
the defined zone configuration only and do not appear in the effective zone configuration.
1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Enter the zone
Segmented fabrics
This section discusses fabric segmentation. Fabric segmentation occurs when two or more
switches are joined together by ISLs and do not communicate to each other. Each switch appears
as a separate fabric when you use the fabricShow command.
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show command.
--
zone --show [name]
where:
name The name of the zone to be displayed. If the name is omitted, the command
displays information about all TI zones in the defined configuration.
To display information about the TI zone purplezone:
switch:admin> zone --show purplezone
Defined TI zone configuration:
TI Zone Name: redzone:
Port List: 1,2; 1,3; 3,3; 4,5
Configured Status: Activated / Failover-Enabled
Enabled Status: Activated / Failover-Enabled
To display information about all TI zones in the defined configuration:
switch:admin> zone --show
Defined TI zone configuration:
TI Zone Name: greenzone:
Port List: 2,2; 3,3; 5,3; 4,11;
Configured Status: Activated / Failover-Enabled
Enabled Status: Activated / Failover-Enabled
TI Zone Name: purplezone:
Port List: 1,2; 1,3; 3,3; 4,5;
Configured Status: Activated / Failover-Enabled
Enabled Status: Deactivated / Failover-Enabled
TI Zone Name: bluezone:
Port List: 9,2; 9,3; 8,3; 8,5;
Configured Status: Deactivated / Failover-Disabled
Enabled Status: Activated / Failover-Enabled
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